Editorial: La Vanguardia

• Spain's Autonomous Communities are operating without taking full advantage of its due to an outdated and imbalanced financing system.
• The failure to revise and balance the economic and financial rules governing the autonomous communities is considered a collective failure of Spanish democracy.
• Successive financial patches do not provide the necessary stability, and it is the citizens who are affected, particularly in basic aspects such as health, education, and social services.
• Political consensus is essential for the establishment of a solid financing system, but differences between the PSOE and the PP make this difficult.
• Catalonia is one of the most disadvantaged communities and proposes a unique financing to end economic discrimination and fiscal deficit.
• The Government's President has offered to dismiss a part of Catalonia’s public debt, but this is only another financial patch.

Conclusion: The current autonomous financing system is not transparent, equitable nor efficient and this represents an obstacle to economic progress and social welfare for everyone. Its renewal is urgent.

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